Colom out-raises Hyde-Smith, but incumbent has more cash on hand

Colom out-raises Hyde-Smith, but incumbent has more cash on hand

Candidates for Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat in the 2026 midterms are, from left, Ty Pinkins, Cindy Hyde-Smith and Scott Colom.

Colom says U.S. Senate race with Hyde-Smith is "tied" but polling, history tell another story in Mississippi

Mississippi has seen this playbook before from a Democrat challenger to U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. Like Scott Colom's campaign, media outlets ran with polling results in 2020 in her race with Mike Espy showing the Democrat was within 1% of the Republican incumbent. Espy then lost by 10%.